The Parapent Bellmunt group announced a Breakfast & Fly day, starting with refreshments at the monastery at 11am. Having looked at the weather, I thought it would be far too windy, but we decided to head out anyway and go walking if flying wasn’t a possiblity. It became clear as soon as we opened the door that we probably wouldn’t fly today, but you never know… Bellmunt is in a different valley system after all.

We got there later than expected. On the ground in Torrello the wind was less, but the flags were showing it too far off to the west. At the landing field it was top end and predictably, it was blown out at the top. We decided to do a walk along the spine of the ridge, then drop down into the valley behind and then have a steep walk back up to the monastery. With temperatures at the coast predicted to be 20°C, it was pleasantly warm even at 1250m and we were soon shedding jackets and jumpers. I was glad it’s been dry for a while. Some of the path goes over slippy stones right on the edge. Well, both edges… it not so much a spine back as a razor back. Big drops either side if you slip.

We had a picnic at the end of the ridge in the sunshine and then dropped down into the shady north side. The walk took about three hours and we had a coffee in the monastery on our return. It was still far too windy to fly…

See photos of today.

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